Up close with Scotland’s magic and mysterious hares

IN centuries past, the prospect of encountering a hare on this lonely mountain path would have filled travellers with dread. Feared as a shape-shifting witch or a fairy that had snatched a dead child, the animal was considered a harbinger of doom. Fishermen refused to set sail after glimpsing one, seafarers thought it bad luck to mention the creature by name and a pregnant women who saw one could expect to give birth to a hare-lipped baby. . https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16974374.up-close-with-scotlands-magic-and-mysterious-hares/